When the education company Benesse asked members of its elementary school students’ correspondence course in Japan what kind of summer vacation homework they had been given, more than 76% said ...

For elementary school children in Japan, their weeks-long summer vacation isn't entirely a time for leisure. Instead, it's overshadowed by a stack of homework that features, among other things, an ...

The author is a Tokyo correspondent of the JoongAng Ilbo. A grey-haired woman works as a server at the dessert cafe I stop by in Ginza, Tokyo. She is 70 years old and wears a white blouse and a black ...

The following is a typical scene that many families in Japan will have recently experienced, and probably not for the first time: It’s August 31, the last day of summer vacation and the fall semester ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. A Japanese morning show recently did a report on how some kids are doing their homework while playing clips of YouTubers studying. The show featured a ...

Over the last decade, Japanese schools have been scrapping homework while American elementary schools have been assigning more of it. What gives—aren’t they supposed to be the model achievers while we ...